I'm just glad you got there before I did.
Do you remember the thing with Nita's stuff? In Grandpa's estate? It was remarkable...
Everything... and I mean everything... whether it was a spoon, or or hand mixer, or a potato peeler... everything had a little tag taped on it someplace with the date it was purchased and how much it cost. EVERYTHING.
It was staggering, really. I can only think that it had something to do with growing up throught the great depression. The trauma of that time left an indelible mark on how people of that generation viewed money, and it really stuck.
We should perhaps think that it wasn't *entirely* a bad thing.